On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:52:22AM -0500, Robert Fischer wrote:
>> You have to explicitly force the lazy value first- but other than it being
>> explicit, this is no different from other languages that implicitly force
>> the value for you. Well, Haskell has an option where a pattern match can
>> always succeed that doesn't necessarily force the lazy value (I forget
>> what it's called at the moment), but baring that, even standard Haskell
>> pattern matching forces the value for the match.
> ...which is pretty much how it is going to have to work until someone
> builds a programming language with psychic precognition.
Whose reference manual would have to be called
The Minority Report on the Programming Language Foo :-)
--
Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u